2 pizzas, a small order of breadsticks, and wanted to splurge and get cinnamon sticks.

Pizzas are a "Buy one get one deal!" at 13 bucks a pizza. Figured what the hell, I'll splurge on desert then with the deal. Get to checkout... hold on a minute.... 50 dollars for pizza?! Wait a minute 80 dollars after fees and taxes?!

Usually I only use Doordash for finding something, then I order direct from the store. I just saw the sweet "buy one get one" deal and thought eh, fine I'm here. Right, that's why I stopped using door dash. I'm not spending 80 dollars on freaking pizza. I'll just go pick it up and spend a quarter of that price.

At least I would have saved the $3 dollar delivery fee. Phew. Thanks DoorDash.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

With 80€, I get around 2 weeks of groceries in Germany for 1 person... Almost free highest quality tap water, no breakfast, bread with something on it for lunch, something for dinner that results in leftovers for 1-2 days...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only if your eat like a monk. That's 5.71€ per day

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Well... I'm not feeling like I'm missing anything... My meat consumption is pretty low by the way...

    1 kg Spaghetti = 2 € reduced price

    1.5 kg Tomatoe puree = 3.50 € reduced price

    Let's assume 1€ for all the other non-meat stuff you put in there...

    Voila, Spaghetti Napoli... This is enogh food for me for lunch + dinner, lunch + dinner on the next day and lunch the day after for only 6.50 € total.

    A frozen Pizza is like 2 € (reduced price)...

    A large bread is a few €s, but is enough for multiple days...

    500 gram Skyr = 1.50 € and is sometimes enough for me for lunch. Add a few flakes and it's maybe 2 €...

    If I'd want to reach the stated 80€ a week, I kind of have to eat in a restaurant or invite more people...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where’s the vegetables? Fresh lettuce or spinach? Onions, carrots, celery, broccoli, kale, cucumber, fresh peas, peppers, egg plants….

    You’re just eating canned tomatoes and pasta. People get more balanced diet than that at the food bank!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wrote:

    Let's assume 1€ for all the other non-meat stuff you put in there...

    Even, if it's 2€ or 3€ for other people... It does not change the fact that you can create a huge meal for multiple days for a reasonable price.

    Even if I consume all the stuff listed by you combined with pasta and tomatoes (as much as a single person can eat), that's still not 80 $/€ a week for me.....

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fresh vegetables are way more expensive than that where I live. A package of lettuce (good for 3 days) costs $4. A package of bell peppers (3 peppers) costs $8-10.

    Allocating $1.50 (CAD, about equal to 1€) to vegetables might get me a head of lettuce and a bit of carrot and onion. Enough to make a basic garden salad. Nowhere near enough to make something nice like a rich vegetable soup!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I looked on the shop website of a national supermarket of my country and it offers (without discount) Gemüsepaprika (that seems to be the translation of bell peppers) for 5,30€ per Kilogram.... A kilogram is probably 7 or 8 of them... But as I told before: I'm 1 person, not a whole family. There is no way, I put a kilogram or even 3 of them in there...

    Maybe, it's cheaper here. Supermarkets try to sell regional stuff, if available.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, a kilogram of bell peppers is about 3-4 peppers. These things are massive! 5.30€ is about $7.80 Canadian. A bit cheaper but not much.

    I don’t know if you have a lot of greenhouses in Europe. Here in Canada we have some but nowhere near enough to feed the country. We import a lot of vegetables from California and Mexico. Can’t always grow locally when there’s a metre of snow on the ground and the air is -10C or colder for 6 months.

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